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Can anyone identify this colony formation? (mander.xyz)
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[–] 15 points 1 year ago* (34 children)

What's with the sadam memes? Put in the pleases! I wanna be cool too!

Okay found this "the illustration went viral following a tweet comparing it to a rented apartment, with humorous edits of the image following in late June 2021."

But why is it back?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (30 children)

    Look at the calendar, it's 9/11...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (29 children)

    Is this some kind of meta-joke? What does Saddam have to do with 9/11?

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  • [+] -16 points 1 year ago (27 children)

    This is not at all a joke.

    Saddam Hussein orchestrated the 9/11 attack.

    This isn't even funny, please educate yourself.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (19 children)

    Are you conflating Osama Bin Laden with Saddam Hussein, for whom as summarized by wikipedia:

    In 2003, a US-led coalition invaded Iraq, falsely accusing him of developing weapons of mass destruction and of having ties with al-Qaeda.

    Unless you have that evidence the world was looking for I don't want to spread old, debunked propaganda.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (16 children)

    Oh please, Obama wasn't even on the scene when I got the info on Osama, I definitely know the difference.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Can you cite where Saddam is involved in 9/11? Again, it's generally accepted history that the Bush Administration claimed he supported the attacks, never presented evidence he was involved, then later admitted he was not involved.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/sep/12/september11.usa2

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Also, that document was first archived in August 2013, not 2006, not 2001

    https://web.archive.org/web/20130830185412/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/sep/12/september11.usa2

    So please don't try to refer me to ancient shit that could have been altered over many years...

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Did you miss the mass erase of online data?

    My data is before the mass erase.

    I don't even trust modern links, they've all been tampered with.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They're in your walls they're gonna come for you

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Har har, you're phunny.

    Some say perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

    No, I don't believe there are microphones or cameras hidden in the walls. You think I'm stupid? The microphones and cameras are right here in the tablet I'm holding right now..

    Nothing hidden anymore, it's right in front of you...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    You do realize that reads like you're off your meds.

    I work in IT. There have definitely been several attacks on the quality of information available to the general public in the last few decades, but none that I would qualify as a singular "the"

    Could you be more specific on which attack (or by whom) you're referring to?

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I think they're a person who's honestly in a dark place.

    I think they're objectively wrong about the 'Saddam being linked to 9/11' thing, and I worry that they've been a bit lost in their own head a bit.

    The idea that data was deleted isn't meritless in the sense that between enshittification and Musk's tech bros there's good reason to believe censorship and destruction have occurred recently (and they're only the latest in a long line of maliciously maligned actors).

    But I agree that their posts are so ridiculously textbook schizophrenic, that I do wonder if it's an act. Yet, nonetheless it costs me little to be kind. 😅

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    GAO-04-1033T

    Legit info, and I'm sure that's not all..

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  • [+] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    I don't trust any information about this subject, even my own info. It's all very prone to misinformation, propaganda, and general manipulation.

    But of all sources you'd suggest, Wikipedia?

    You gotta be shitting me. My sources are between the GAO (Government Accountability Office) and a hefty data dump of early years of Wikileaks.

    Anyways, yeah I have plenty enough reason to not trust currently available information, it's all probably been cherry picked and edited to hell and back for the modern narrative.

    I have much more original information.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I'm not trusting any external source here. I grew up under the Bush presidency and simply remember the whole fiasco.

    Bush and friends invented the link to justify their prior war plans, when pushed to prove there was a connection, Bush failed to produce evidence.

    You're implying Bush (or … someone?) had the evidence that would have vindicated him, but rather than share it, deliberately buried it and successfully hid it from the whole world?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    I just got done saying that I don't trust any info on this subject, even the huge archive I inherited from my late father.

    But I'm more inclined to trust the data from my late father, before many documents conveniently got edited, blacked out or just became missing.

    Anyways, I don't care what anyone thinks or can or cannot prove about Hussein, it's perfectly normal to hide in a hole in the ground if you've done nothing wrong...

    Oh wait..

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Dafaq? Saddam had nothing to do with it, and a vast majority of the world knew that at the time. That's why the bullshit WMD story was circulated as an excuse to attack, and still most of the world was dubious at best.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Please just don't, I've got gigabytes of info on this.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Lemmy has generally had several kicks of revivnig old memes and old meme formats. A few months ago folks were doing the beans thing from several years ago, I've seen folks trying to bring advice animals and demotivational posters back, etc.

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